<p>A family is divided when its favourite daughter is forced to flee rural Ireland and to seek her living in war-torn Birmingham.</p> <p>Bridie McCarthy loves her family&#8217;s farm in the remotest part of Donegal even though she&#8217;s forced to work hard when all of her siblings leave home. She can&#8217;t bear to let down her beloved parents &#8211; until a horrible act of violence gives her no option but to run away. She turns to the one person she can trust &#8211; big sister Mary now settled with a family of her own in Birmingham.</p> <p>Life here couldn&#8217;t be more different but slowly Bridie comes to see the good side of a busy city and begins to regain her confidence. But fate has more trouble in store as World War Two looms threatening everything she&#8217;s fought so hard to win.</p>